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Overthwart   Listen
verb
Overthwart  v. t.  To cross; to oppose. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... prepositions, although they are double words. They may be called compound prepositions."—Cooper's Gram., p. 103. I have called the complex prepositions double rather than compound, because several of the single prepositions are compound words; as, into, notwithstanding, overthwart, throughout, upon, within, without. And even some of these may follow the preposition from; as, "If he shall have removed from within the limits of this state." But in and to, up and on, with and in, are not always compounded when they come together, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



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